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OSCAR PREDICTIONS

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Well it is that time of year again!  Who will take  home a coveted Oscar?  Who will give the best acceptance speech?  Who will read out the wrong winner?  We will find out the answers to all of these questions (and the plain old ‘best’ awards themselves) on February 24th.  As a full-fledged Oscar nerd, I am ready to make my picks for this years’ winners.  This is the first year in a long time that I am not confident in all my picks.  There a lot of tight races, and I think there will be several upsets.  Be that as it may. here is my list of who I think will win (not necessarily who I want to win)

BEST ACTOR:  Rami Malek

BEST ACTRESS:  Glen Close

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:  Mahershala Ali

BEST SUPPORT ACTRESS:  Regina King

BEST DIRECTOR:  Alfonso Curan

BEST PICTURE:  Green Book (I am the least confident with this one)

BEST SONG:  Shallow

BEST ORIGINAL SCREEN PLAY: Green Book

BEST ADAPTED SCREEN PLAY:  BlackKklansman

BEST ANIMATED MOVE:  Into the Spiderverse

 

What do you all think?  I would love to hear your opinions.  Please leave a comment and may the best predictions win!!!

 

POSTSCRIPT:  Yay for me!  I got 9 out of ten correct.  The only one I missed was Olivia Coleman winning best actress.  This was well-deserved but a surprise none-the-less!

OSCAR PREDICTIONS

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Oscar season is upon us and I love it!  I don’t think I have missed an Oscar presentation in over 50 years!  I was watching when a man streaked across the stage behind David Niven.  I saw Charlie Chaplin get his honorary Oscar and a 15 minute standing ovation.  I got to see Sidney Poitier and Halle Berry make history.  I even watched as Jack Palance (who was in his 70’s) did one armed push-ups on stage.  I wonder what memorable event will happen this year?  The most fun is in forecasting who will win, and then watching and adding up your winning predictions.  So here they are – the people I think will win that coveted statue.

BEST ACTOR:  This will go to Gary Oldman, who gave an impressive tour-de-force as Winston Churchill in “The Finest Hour”.

BEST ACTRESS:  I am certain that Francis McDormand will earn an Oscar as the heart-wrenching mother of “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:  Sam Rockwell gave a compelling performance as a racist police officer who gets a little redemption in “Three Billboards”.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:  This was really hard to predict but I think it will be Allison Janney as the cruel mother in “I,Tonya”.

BEST MOVIE:  I have been vacillating between two movies, not quite sure who Hollywood is going to go with.  Well, I guess I will go with …………”The Shape of Water”.  I mean, who can argue with a woman who falls in love with a merman?

BEST DIRECTOR:  Guillermo del Toro

 

These are my main picks, but I will throw in a few bonus prognostications just for the fun of it —

ANIMATED MOVIE:  “Loving Vincent”

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:  “Mudbound”

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:  “Three Billboards”

ORIGINAL SCORE:  Hans Zimmer for “Dunkirk”

ORIGINAL SONG:  This is the only one I am going out on my own on.  I have no idea what the members of the Academy will do, but I vote for “Remember Me” from “Coco”.  I just really liked that song.

 

I would really love to hear what  you think.  Leave a comment with your choices, grab some popcorn and watch with me on March 4!

 

 

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Everyone who knows me, knows I LOVE movies.  I have been watching the yearly Academy Awards since I was five.  Well, I didn’t watch but would stay up listening in my room while I was supposed to be asleep.   Since my teens, I have been predicting the winners in the main categories.  I usually do a pretty good job if I do say so myself.  The following predictions are not necessarily who I think should win, just who I think will win.  Here we go……

BEST PICTURE:  La La Land will get this one.  I have seen most of the best pictures, and this one is the most original of the bunch.

BEST DIRECTOR:  Damien Chazellle for La La Land

BEST ACTRESS:  Emma Stone

BEST ACTOR:  This is a hard one to predict.  I believe Viggo Mortensen has an outside chance, but I think it might go to Denzel Washington.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:  Viola Davis

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:  Mahershala Ali

BEST ANIMATED MOVIE:  Zootopia

ORIGINAL SONG:  City of Stars from La La Land

ORIGINAL SCORE:  La La Land

What do you think?  I would love to hear your thoughts and predictions!